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Country station WACO 100/Waco-Killeen announced Monday the 25th anniversary of two of its shows: Afternoons with John Elliott (weekdays 3-7 p.m.) and The Zack and Jim Morning Show (weekdays from 6-10 a.m.).

Elizabeth Grattan and Ft. Myers Broadcasting Company have parted ways after four years.  Grattan worked swing for the company while it was branded “MORE FM” from 2013-2015 and then was brought on full-time working middays when the frequency rebranded under their heritage calls of WINK-FM.

That’s Jacob “Tight Pants” Bowling, who has been named Assistant Program Director, Music Director, and afternoon personality for ALT 107.3, Wichita’s Alternative Rock, effective November 20. “Tight Pants” will broadcast from 2-7 p.m. on ALT 107.3, playing a variety of Alternative Rock hits.

Rick Crandall, Program Director and morning show host of KEZW/Denver (Cruisin’ 1430) has a new deal taking him through 2020. Crandall has been a staple of Denver’s broadcast community since he joined KEZW in 1991. Along the way he has earned numerous awards

Total Traffic & Weather Network has hired broadcasting and traffic veteran Jim Battagliese as Regional Director of Operations for the New York market. Battagliese joins TTWN from Hubbard Radio’s WTOP in Washington, DC where he served as Director of Traffic and Weather Operations since 2010.

CBS Radio Las Vegas and The Chet Buchanan Show have a new multi-year deal that will keep the morning show waking up Vegas on 98.5 KLUC. The show has been heard on 98.5 KLUC since its debut in 1999. In conjunction with the new deal, the show will also be rebranded from Chet Buchanan & the Morning Zoo to The Chet Buchanan Show.

CMA Major Market “Station of the Year” 2017 Award Winners New Country 92.3 (WIL, St. Louis), welcomes Stacey and Jonah to the Afternoon Drive timeslot, beginning January 2018. The pair have been hosting mornings on KHTH “Hot 101.7” in Santa Rosa, CA for the past six years.

Rich Berra, nationally syndicated host of The Johnjay & Rich Show, is releasing The Tale of Christmas Steve, a holiday children’s book. The 32-page hardcover book is available for purchase at www.ChristmasSteve.org and on Amazon. Proceeds benefit the Johnjay and Rich Christmas Wish program.

Today should be an interesting day for CBS Radio Boston's Michael Felger and Tony Massarotti with a lot of extra tune-in. The hosts are being criticized by quite a few print publications after blaming former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay for his own death.

Former WFAN host Craig Carton plead not guilty yesterday to fraud charges and told reporters outside a Manhattan courthouse he is "unequivocally not guilty." The 48-year old said he was "shocked when I was arrested and even more surprised that the government was accusing me of running a complete sham as they put it."